Guest essay: Discord is eroding Rochester School District

8:54 PM,
Jan. 31, 2014

City schools chief Bolgen Vargas.

Written by

Ruth Cohen

I was saddened and frustrated by the Association of Supervisors and Administrators of Rochester's action to vote a "no confidence" for Superintendent Bolgen Vargas.

It would appear that administrators are frustrated and angered by the same issues as teachers: namely, being judged, evaluated and granted tenure or not, based on unrealistic and unfair standards of Common Core and Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR). We all agree that our current system is failing our larger student population; we all want and need solutions, but attacking each other is the wrong point of focus.